Without access to health care or higher education and burdened by heavy college loans, people are practically caged within a system where the actualization of their potential becomes harder and harder to achieve. 1/1

Apr 17, 2020 · 2:09 PM UTC

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Chronic economic anxiety thus becomes a constant companion., as it was even before the pandemic for tens of millions of Americans.There, in the constriction of their opportunities, lies the constriction of the American economy. 1/2
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To speak of the economy as a separate entity that bestows its abundance on people rather than as the creativity of people sharing their abundance with the world, is the upside down thinking that makes our system so skewed and inevitably cruel.1/3
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Even now masters of the universe speak of re-opening the economy with almost bloodless lack of consideration for how many millions of people will be too financially devastated by then to participate. Bubonic plague led to end of serfdom; COVID-19 threatens to re-introduce it.1/4
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If our govt doesn’t stop underestimating the intelligence of the American people, recognizing the barrenness of our system has been revealed for all its heartlessness, they will be caught off guard by a wave of chaos that will come crashing over all of us when the pandemic ends.
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Replying to @marwilliamson
As we have here in Scotland, you need to have free health care and free education, elementary thro to tertiary. It's the mark of a civilised society. UK Govt currently trying to take it away from us but we will resist....FREEEDOM 😁
Replying to @marwilliamson
Maybe peeps should not have borrowed 180 K $ to get a degree in Speech Pathology in Ancient Rome.
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Replying to @marwilliamson
The reason so many are burdened with student loans is because college degrees are necessary for many jobs. Not because it's college level work, but proof that the person can read, write, and use certain computer programs. K-12 is creating the cycle of debt in many areas.
Replying to @marwilliamson
How are people without access to hugher education burdened by heavy college loans?
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Replying to @marwilliamson
Pretty words but meaningless. If you were sincere you would be promoting #MedicareForAll #GreenNewDeal #EndStudentDebt.
Replying to @marwilliamson
great take. 100%. I think about this often. We're all just husk versions of the people we could be if our world weren't organized in an inherently inhumane way.
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